Cynthia Moe-Lobeda is the Founding Director of the Center for Climate Justice and Faith at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary (PLTS), and a co-founder of Seattle University's Center for Environmental Justice and Sustainability. She has provided education worldwide in theology; ethics; and matters of climate justice and climate racism, eco-feminist theology, and faith-based resistance to systemic oppression. Her Resisting Structural Evil: Love as Ecological-Economic Vocation (Fortress, 2013), won a Nautilus Book Award for social justice.

She is one of 3 North Americans appointed to a global team to advise the World Council of Churches and Lutheran World Federation on their work toward a new international financial architecture. This week, Cynthia offered experiential programming on faith-based climate justice. Her workshops were titled "Beloved Creatures, Created to Love…Yet “Uncreating," "Forging Ways of Living that Enable Earth's Web of Life to Flourish," "Seeds of Hope and Moral-Spiritual Power Rooted in Faith," and "Building on Hope and Moral-Spiritual Power Rooted in Faith."

To learn more about Holden Village, visit: http://www.holdenvillage.org or to listen to more audio recordings visit: http://audio.holdenvillage.org. The Holden Village Podcast is accessible through Apple iTunes, Spotify, TuneIn, iHeart Radio, and most podcast apps. For questions and inquiries, contact [email protected].

Chasity is a new mom with a beautiful baby girl named Lola and is in the Master of Divinity program at Boston University School of Theology. She identifies as a Womanist theologian, a decolonizer, and a liberationist. Originally from Louisiana with a Baptist and missionary background, she is now centrally devoted to Black women’s health and healing. She became a Krista Colleague while a Community Organizer at Faith Action Network in Seattle and Global Ministries in the United Methodist Church. She has recently launched Fourth Wave Revolution to walk with churches, school and medical institutions in the process of decolonization.

For the last five years, she has engaged with sermons, adult Sunday schools, workshops, individual and collective consulting, yoga and mindfulness, support groups, and more. She’s also very interested in understanding how traditional African-oriented practices in spirituality are shunned often within the black church community.

To learn more about Holden Village, visit: http://www.holdenvillage.org or to listen to more audio recordings visit: http://audio.holdenvillage.org. The Holden Village Podcast is accessible through Apple iTunes, Spotify, TuneIn, iHeart Radio, and most podcast apps. For questions and inquiries, contact [email protected].

Pastor Liv Larson Andrews talks about her response to this week's programming, which reflected on themes of lightness and darkness in liturgy as well as the story of Hagar, and the experience of trying out new language in the Holden Evening Prayer.

To learn more about Holden Village, visit: http://www.holdenvillage.org or to listen to more audio recordings visit: http://audio.holdenvillage.org. The Holden Village Podcast is accessible through Apple iTunes, Spotify, TuneIn, iHeart Radio, and most podcast apps. For questions and inquiries, contact [email protected].

"I realized my first year in this position that art is a muscle that you have to develop and flex and train to be in the flow to produce and cultivate inspiration." ~ Kate Egolf, 

PotterHolden Village has long been known for incredible programming, sparking minds and imaginations with insightful and engaging sessions. And now we're bringing Holden programming to you!

Through this Virtual Programming series, we'll profile the amazing work of Holden Village. Journey along with us as we explore the arts, the kitchen, utilities, ceramics, garbology, and more, interviewing staff members and telling the stories of the areas that make Holden Village so special. Come behind the scenes and learn more about the philosophy, grounding, and details of all the work that makes Holden tick. Welcome to Virtual Programming!

To learn more about Holden Village, visit: http://www.holdenvillage.org or to listen to more audio recordings visit: http://audio.holdenvillage.org. The Holden Village Podcast is accessible through Apple iTunes, Spotify, TuneIn, iHeart Radio, and most podcast apps. For questions and inquiries, contact [email protected].

"Garbology has increased my understanding of how we get into cycles of consumption and is also a way to be mindful, care for creation, and show respect for the interdependent web of which we are all a part of. " ~ Rachael Meadors, Garbologist

Holden Village has long been known for incredible programming, sparking minds and imaginations with insightful and engaging sessions. And now we're bringing Holden programming to you! Through this Virtual Programming series, we'll profile the amazing work of Holden Village. Journey along with us as we explore the arts, the kitchen, utilities, ceramics, garbology, and more, interviewing staff members and telling the stories of the areas that make Holden Village so special. Come behind the scenes and learn more about the philosophy, grounding, and details of all the work that makes Holden tick. Welcome to Virtual Programming!

To learn more about Holden Village, visit: http://www.holdenvillage.org or to listen to more audio recordings visit: http://audio.holdenvillage.org. The Holden Village Podcast is accessible through Apple iTunes, Spotify, TuneIn, iHeart Radio, and most podcast apps. For questions and inquiries, contact [email protected].

"We're not always taught how blackness became a thing. How does white become a race? How does black become a race, when race itself has no meaning? It is a social construct. " ~ Asa lee

Rev. Dr. Asa Lee is a socially conscious religious educator and pastoral leader. He is the new President of the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania. He is a sought-after lecturer exploring faith in the 21st century; religious difference; and empowering effective church leadership. Having served as a pastor, professor, and nonprofit leader, he is an experienced administrator and communicator that works to educate and promote a more nuanced view of the world through education. He is a married father of four daughters and resides in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

To learn more about Holden Village, visit: http://www.holdenvillage.org or to listen to more audio recordings visit: http://audio.holdenvillage.org. The Holden Village Podcast is accessible through Apple iTunes, Spotify, TuneIn, iHeart Radio, and most podcast apps. For questions and inquiries, contact [email protected].

"Writing an ode is a form of meditation and gratitude practice. It's also a method for repairing our relationship with something, someone, someplace, to write in it's praise." ~ Elizabeth Austen

Former Washington State Poet Laureate Elizabeth Austen believes poetry is part of our human birthright. Among the many things poetry can do, she’s most invested in its capacity to confront big questions with intelligence and feeling. Through its intimacy, slowness, and layered silences, poetry can offer moments of stillness and connection in a frantic, clamorous world.

She’s the author of Every Dress a Decision (Blue Begonia Press), which was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award, two chapbooks, and an audio CD. Poems from her next collection-in-progress appeared recently in the New England Review and Spirited Stone: Lessons from Kubota’s Garden. She’s performed her work widely, including at UNESCO in Paris alongside poets from 12 nations and at Poets House in NYC. 

For over a decade, she’s facilitated poetry and reflective writing as a tool for self-care at Seattle Children’s Hospital. She’s worked with organizations including Neighborcare and Virginia Mason, using poetry to help clinicians renew their connection to the heart of care, and has lectured on poetry/reflective writing as a tool for resilience at the University of Washington School of Social Work, Kaiser Permanente, and the WCAAP.

To learn more about Holden Village, visit: http://www.holdenvillage.org or to listen to more audio recordings visit: http://audio.holdenvillage.org. The Holden Village Podcast is accessible through Apple iTunes, Spotify, TuneIn, iHeart Radio, and most podcast apps. For questions and inquiries, contact [email protected].

"According to the Audubon society, over the past century, urbanization has taken intact, ecologically productive land and fragmented and transformed it with lawns and exotic ornamental plants. The continental U.S. lost a staggering 150 million acres of habitat and farmland to urban sprawl, and that trend isn't slowing." Amy Tongue, Naturalist

Holden Village has long been known for incredible programming, sparking minds and imaginations with insightful and engaging sessions. And now we're bringing Holden programming to you!

Through this Virtual Programming series, we'll profile the amazing work of Holden Village. Journey along with us as we explore the arts, the kitchen, utilities, ceramics, garbology, and more, interviewing staff members and telling the stories of the areas that make Holden Village so special. Come behind the scenes and learn more about the philosophy, grounding, and details of all the work that makes Holden tick. Welcome to Virtual Programming! 

To learn more about Holden Village, visit: http://www.holdenvillage.org or to listen to more audio recordings visit: http://audio.holdenvillage.org. The Holden Village Podcast is accessible through Apple iTunes, Spotify, TuneIn, iHeart Radio, and most podcast apps. For questions and inquiries, contact [email protected].

"We are focusing on curiosity and making space for questioning our practices, processes, and crafts. That fits into our summer theme of Samaritan Traveler of approaching projects without expectation, and allowing the processes to unfold out of curiosity and play. Then we leave with a deeper understanding of the practice, the materials, and ourselves." ~ Kelly Snyder, Craft Studio Coordinator

Holden Village has long been known for incredible programming, sparking minds and imaginations with insightful and engaging sessions. And now we're bringing Holden programming to you!

Through this Virtual Programming series, we'll profile the amazing work of Holden Village. Journey along with us as we explore the arts, the kitchen, utilities, ceramics, garbology, and more, interviewing staff members and telling the stories of the areas that make Holden Village so special. Come behind the scenes and learn more about the philosophy, grounding, and details of all the work that makes Holden tick.Welcome to Virtual Programming!

To learn more about Holden Village, visit: http://www.holdenvillage.org or to listen to more audio recordings visit: http://audio.holdenvillage.org. The Holden Village Podcast is accessible through Apple iTunes, Spotify, TuneIn, iHeart Radio, and most podcast apps. For questions and inquiries, contact [email protected].

"There are so many people coming in and out of the village.  Hellos and goodbyes are a way to acknowledge the time we have with this group of people as a community, be grateful, try to experience everything as fully as we can (without thinking of the end), be present, and then let go." ~ Emer Kate Sanders, Holden Program Associate

Holden Village has long been known for incredible programming, sparking minds and imaginations with insightful and engaging sessions. And now we're bringing Holden programming to you!

Through this Virtual Programming series, we'll profile the amazing work of Holden Village. Journey along with us as we explore the arts, the kitchen, utilities, ceramics, garbology, and more, interviewing staff members and telling the stories of the areas that make Holden Village so special. Come behind the scenes and learn more about the philosophy, grounding, and details of all the work that makes Holden tick.Welcome to Virtual Programming!

To learn more about Holden Village, visit: http://www.holdenvillage.org or to listen to more audio recordings visit: http://audio.holdenvillage.org. The Holden Village Podcast is accessible through Apple iTunes, Spotify, TuneIn, iHeart Radio, and most podcast apps. For questions and inquiries, contact [email protected].